Unfortunately, I spent most of it inside. Except for me and the dog going for a couple of walks and watering the garden a couple of times, that is.
Spent most of the day scanning my Father-In-Laws negatives and finally got those done. Now to put everything on a disc and send them to him. Lots of pictures of trains and layouts! Hope he appreciates them.
Just not much else going on. Spent a couple of hours going through the job listings for this area (Belfair to Tacoma and beyond) I really have no desire to drive to Tacoma, North of Tacoma or Olympia unless I really have to. It’s going to have to be one high paying job for me to take on that commute! I’d rather take a low paying local job any day.
Actually, I’ve been out of work so long I haven’t any desire to go back to work at all. Not that I’m having too much fun or anything hanging around the house. But the “work†I do around the house is important and there’s a lot that won’t get done (in a timely manner) if I were to have to commute to a job and back every day. Mixed feelings about working “for†someone also. I’m at that age that the BS gets to me and I just want to wade through it to the meat of the matter.
But I do kinda sorta need to get back to work. Any company’s out there need an OLDER IT guy that knows Windows (3.1 thru 7) and is learning Linux?
I need to save up and buy myself a new laptop to run my radio. The one I have is going TU more and more. Damned USB ports are burning out or just plain failing. DVD drive already doesn’t work and it’s almost as expensive to buy a new one as it is to just buy another laptop.
I need to save up and buy SWMBO a new laptop also; since she broke her screen on our vacation. (Tried to close a mouse in it.) We bought her an external monitor but that’s going to be a real pain to lug around when she needs to go mobile.
I need to win the lotto. $300 Million (clear) would do me just about right. There’s some property in Oregon I want to buy and a house I want to build from scratch to see how much it would cost “the average person†to build a totally energy efficient house using solar/wind/geothermal power. Hell, I’d like to try one of those fuel cells to power my house.
Ah well…